Wedding Song Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman

Name: Wedding Song Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
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ISBN: 9781584654445

ISBN-10: 1584654449

ISBN-13: 9781584654445

Edition: 2004

Authors: Farideh Goldin

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Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state--prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin's passionate and painful account of her childhood in a poor Jewish household and her emigration to the United States in 1975. As she recalls trips to the market and the mikvah, and as she evokes ritual celebrations like weddings, Goldin chronicles her childhood, her extended family, and the lives of the women in her community in Shiraz, a southern Iranian city. Her memoir details her parents' "courtship" (her father selected her mother from a group of adolescent girls), her mother's lonely life as a…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Publication date: 9/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.770



Prologue: Iranian Memoirs



Blood Lines


Maman: My Mother


Baba: My Father


Maman's Story


Baba's Story


A New Life in Shiraz


Aziza



My Grandmother's House


My Childhood Home


A Day at the Hamam


The Question of Virginity


The Garden Wedding


A Divorce in the Family



My Education


Private Lessons: Fear


A Restless Year


The Price of a Woman's Education


Khanom-bozorg


The First Grade


Leaving The Mahaleh



A Place for Me


Our New Home


My Space


Out of Place


A Piece of Chocolate



Marriage: A Woman's Dream


Khastegaree: Marriage Proposals


Feathers and Hair


A Viewing



My New World


Leaving Iran


Bibi


A Match for Me


The Last Days


Epilogue: September 2001


Nightmares


A Closure


Acknowledgments


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